The Tiger's Wife depicts the relationship between Natalia, a young medical professional living in a country in the Balkans, and her grandfather, a celebrated doctor who has recently passed away. Obreht's novel begins with a memory of Natalia and her grandfather visiting the city zoo to see the tigers--a routine of theirs in Natalia's www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins. · The Tiger's Wife is a frisky tiger cub chasing its tail – it covers a lot of ground, growls a lot, and never quite gets there, but we have fun along the way. What the novel lacks in emotional Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Téa Obreht lives in New York. After completing my first novel, The Tiger’s Wife, I’ve found myself indulging in a sentimental mood. I pretend that this is due to my need to retrace my steps, to see how it all came together, and, by remembering what I did before, somehow speed my next project along; in fact, I am probably just procrastinating or being insufferable, mulling over memories that, due to the late /5(K).
Overview. Set in an imaginary modern-day Balkan country, Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife chronicles the effects of prejudice, isolation, and war on both a personal and universal scale. Obreht's characters struggle to survive and live meaningful lives under the shadow of a lengthy war and its aftermath. The Tiger's Wife, Téa Obreht The Tiger's Wife is the debut novel of Serbian-American writer Téa Obreht. It was published in The Tiger's Wife is set in an unnamed Balkan country, spanning the mid 20th-century to the early 21st century. It features a young doctor's relationship with her grandfather and the stories he tells her, primarily about the 'deathless man' who meets him several. Téa Obreht's stunning debut novel, "The Tiger's Wife," is a hugely ambitious, audaciously written work that provides an indelible picture of life in an unnamed Balkan country still.
The Tiger's Wife depicts the relationship between Natalia, a young medical professional living in a country in the Balkans, and her grandfather, a celebrated doctor who has recently passed away. Obreht's novel begins with a memory of Natalia and her grandfather visiting the city zoo to see the tigers--a routine of theirs in Natalia's childhood. Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade in but left at the age of 7, before the major conflict took hold. She lived in Cyprus and Egypt, then moved to the United States in The Tiger's Wife is the debut novel of Serbian-American writer Téa Obreht. It was published in by Weidenfeld Nicolson, a British imprint of Orion Books, and by Random House in America. Obreht won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Tiger's Wife. Obreht was the youngest winner of the prize to date, winning at age
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